Improvement in tool-handles



G. C. MORE-'AN & S. REID. Tool-Handles.

N0.l5| ,239. PatentedMay 2.6.1874K r ro.

GEORGE C. MORGAN AND SAMUEL REID, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

'IMPROVEMENT IN TooL-HANDLES..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1.5 E239, dated May 26,1874; application filed April 27, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE C. MORGAN andSAMUEL REID, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tool-Handles, ofwhich the following is a full description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure lis a longitudinal section. Fig.2 shows the socket detached, Fig. 3, an end view of the handle; Fig. 4,a similar view, with the socket in place; Fig. 5, an end view oi thehandle, socket, and shank ofthe tool.

The object of our invention is to make an improved tool-handle, adaptedto receive sev eral tools having similar shanks, the same being securedin place without the use of a nut; and this we accomplish by making ahollow handle, within which is a movable socket consisting of two jaws.The opening in the end of the handle is so made as to be in form doublyeccentric. The shank of the tool having been inserted in the socket,opening the jaws, by turning the tool and socket so that the lattercomes in close contact with the eccentric walls, the tool will be heldfirmly in place.

In the drawings, A is the handle proper. It

is hollow, and can most conveniently be made of cast metal, but may beof wood or other suitable material. B is a socket, to receive the shankof the tool. It consists of two jaws, a b. Its lower end extends throughthe end of the handle A, and is secured loosely in place by heading orotherwise. The form of the interior of the jaws, where the tool is to beinserted, must correspond with the tools to be placed therein. Theopening c in the end of A, in which the tool is to be placed, is in formdoubly eccentric. (See Fig. 3.) rlhe socket shown is adapted to receivethe shank of an ordinary iiat tile, or other tool having a similarshank.

In use, when the tool is to be inserted, the socket B is to be placed inthe position shown in Fig. 4; then, as the shank is inserted, the jawswill expand; then, by turning the tool, and with it the socket, as faras may be necessary, the jaws will be brought into close contact withthe two eccentric walls of the opening in the end of A, and the toolwill be iirmly secured in place. Of course the shank of the tool inustbe tapering, in order to expand the jaws.

The socket B can best be made' ot' 1nalleable iron. It has twospring-jaws. It can be used to advantage in handles for many tools notspecilied.

In Fig. 5 the tool is shown in the socket, and the same is turned so asto be in contact with the walls of. the opening in the end of thehandle, holding the tool firmly in place.

'What we claim as new is as follows:

The socket B, in combina-tion with the handle A, provided with aneccentric opening, o, all constructed and operating substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

GEORGE C. MORGAN. SAMUEL REID. Witnesses:

E. A. WEsT, O. W. BOND.

